In her ongoing exhibit Enigma: Reactions to Racism at Urbano in Jamaica Plain, Haitian-American artist and educator Chanel Thervil aims to explore racism in Boston from the black millennial perspective. Through a mixed media installation of portraits, abstract works, and interviews, Enigma works to start a dialogue about racism while dispelling some of the stigma […]
REVISITING A FAR CRY
With new grant, Boston’s guerilla chamber orchestra plots orchestral future Michael Unterman is a professional concert cellist, but his morning routine is decidedly computer-based. Most days, the musician goes straight to his laptop to answer emails and write blog posts and program notes. As a member of the Boston chamber orchestra A Far […]
BRICKBOTTOM FOUNDERS SPEAK
Pioneering Somerville artist live/work co-op celebrates 30th anniversary
THE MOVEMENT: PARADISE MOVES TELLS STORIES WITHOUT WORDS
I went to several SLAMS while writing this article, each time trying to find the right words to describe an experience that is deliberately without words. I walked, ran, spun furiously, held poses, pretended to be a mouse as I scrambled on the floor.
SPECIAL FEATURE: BODIES WITHOUT BORDERS
Movement and the immigrant experience at the region’s second home for countless cultures
PRINT AIN’T DEAD: UPHAM’S CORNER POP-UP BOOKSTORES BRING COMMUNITY WORKS BY WRITERS OF COLOR
With Boston full of so much history and culture, it’s natural that there are so many bookstores all around the city. But as Arielle Gray and Cierra Michele noticed, most of those shops lack sections of books written by authors of color. They also saw that certain neighborhoods like Dorchester don’t have bookstores, which […]
CARRIE MAE WEEMS SOLO SHOW IMPRESSES AT BOSTON COLLEGE
Strategies of Engagement at McMullen Museum of Art Our current political storm is exposing how few people (myself included) have a solid knowledge of the history of racism in America. Books like The Strange Career of Jim Crow, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, or Hope in the Dark are replacing the navel-gazing […]
BOSTON ART BOOK FAIR: THE ONLY PLACE YOU’LL FIND MIT AND AN ALLSTON ZINE MAKER EXHIBITING
The three-day celebration will shine spotlights on culture from the Boston area and beyond, plus pack plenty of panels and signings with book makers galore.
IMAGINING AN AFTER
Exploring the Museum of Capitalism I was looking and looking for a quote that I thought was from the philosopher Wittgenstein about how difficult—how structurally impossible it is—to analyze a cultural phenomenon from inside of it, but I was never able to find the quote and am now not even sure it was […]
MEET THE HEAVY LEATHER TOPLESS DANCE PARTY
On the cable set in Somerville in August, Elsa Riot is doing her damndest to sync up an impromptu rendition of the herky-jerky Beach Blanket Bingo routine with a ruthless sonic pummeling by way of a group of apparent Motörhead adherents.
